Folk singer and guitarist; Born September 11, 1925; Died June 26, 2008. Cliff Hall, who has died in Australia aged 82 of progressive heart failure, was a member of the Spinners, England's most popular folk group from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Born in Cuba to Jamaican parents, Hall left school at 14 and did a series of jobs before joining the RAF as a maintenance worker in 1942.

He had always enjoyed guitar music and first met fellow Spinner Tony Davis on a building site in Cheshire in 1953. Davis went on to form the Spinners with Mick Groves and Hughie Jones in Liverpool, and by the late 1950s Hall had also been signed up. The group's reputation and popularity grew to the extent that by 1963 they could go professional. In 1965, Hall was used by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders to add his deep voice to the word "love" in their hit single Game of Love.

With their blend of traditional folk and some more mainstream numbers plus an easy rapport with their audiences, the Spinners became regular guests on television shows and released almost 40 albums before disbanding in 1988.

Hall had convalesced in Australia after a knee operation and it was there he met Dorothy, a nurse. He had been widowed twice and stayed in Australia after they married. He is survived by Dorothy, as well as by two of the three children from his first marriage, Clifford Jr and Robert. His daughter Lynn died last year.